[MGSA-L] Modern Greek Seminar

[Papadimitriou, Lydia]

Modern Greek Seminar
Trinity 2017
4 May, 5 p.m.

47 Wellington Square
Oxford OX1 2JF


Lydia Papadimitriou
(Liverpool John Moores University)

A Blast and other crises: Tracing the economy and ecology of recent Greek cinema

Pivoting around Syllas Tzoumerkas's A Blast (2014), a film set in crisis-ridden Greece and focusing on a young mother's radical break with her past, the talk explores the state of Greek cinema since the advent of the financial crisis in 2010. Drawing on industry data and interviews with filmmakers, distributors and cinema owners, as well as on selected film-textual examples, it utilizes the concepts of  'economy' and 'ecology' to map out the landscape of Greek cinema since the crisis. In so doing it combines quantitative and qualitative analysis, and presents both a macro and a micro analysis of the effects of the cultural politics of austerity on the production, circulation and reception of Greek films.


Lydia Papadimitriou is Reader in Film Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published extensively on different aspects of Greek cinema, as well as on documentary, film festivals, Balkan cinema and film distribution.  She is the author of The Greek Film Musical (2006), co-editor (with Yannis Tzioumakis) of Greek Cinema: Texts, Forms and Identities (2011), and the Principal Editor of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture.


Since 2015 the Greek Seminar has been generously supported
by an A. S. Onassis Foundation special grant


Facutly of Medieval and Modern Languages
Subfaculty of Byzantine and Modern Greek
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/greek-seminars


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